Platyrhinops

Platyrhinops Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, 307.1–305 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype of platyrhinops lyelli with bones outlined in white
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Amphibamidae
Genus:	†Platyrhinops Steen, 1931
Species:	† P. lyelli
Binomial name
Platyrhinops lyelli Wyman, 1858 (as Raniceps lyelli)
Synonyms
Raniceps lyelli Wyman, 1858 [preoccupied] Pelion lyelli Wyman in Cope, 1868 Tuditanus mordax Cope, 1874 Pelion lyellii Cope, 1875 Ichthycanthus platypus Cope, 1877 Eryops platypus Cope, 1888 Diceratosaurus punctolineatus Moodie, 1909 ?Leptophractus lancifer Romer, 1930 Platyrhinops mordax Steen, 1931 Amphibamus lyelli Bolt, 1979

Platyrhinops is an extinct genus amphibamid temnospondyl from the Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) of Ohio and the Czech Republic. It is known from many partial skeletons from the Linton site in Saline Township, Ohio^[1] and at least 6 partial specimens from the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the Kladno Formation in the Czech Republic.^[2]

Gallery

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  Cast of holotype at UALVP.

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  Cast of holotype in the Field Museum of Natural History

References

1. Robert W. Hook and Donald Baird (March 1988). "An Overview of the Upper Carboniferous Fossil Deposit at Linton, Ohio". The Ohio Journal of Science 88 (1): 55–60.
2. Andrew R. Milner and Sandra E.K. Sequeira (2003). "Revision of the amphibian genus Limnerpeton (Temnospondyli) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (1): 123–141.

See also

• Prehistoric amphibian
• List of prehistoric amphibians